by Sever » Tue Nov 02, 2010 7:27 pm
If you have a village, you can build a crossroad in your house near the wall where the boat is. If you teleport to that crossroad, you have a chance of landing on a tile next to the boat, and then you can pick it up.
If you're not in a village and don't want or plan to build one, then build another boat.
Edit: This is known, the workaround was posted in another thread as well.
Come back two hours earlier.